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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8064
Description
Federal Water Rights - Colorado Indian Negotiations
State
CO
Basin
Statewide
Date
12/31/1992
Author
Various
Title
Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Agreement - Animas-La Plata
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News Article/Press Release
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<br />001534 <br /> <br />~~> <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />acre-feet allocation also secured in Arizona v. California. In the <br />future, Arizona will take full advantage of the delivery of water <br />from the Central Arizona Project. with the result that Arizona will <br />in time utilize all of its River allocations. Of course, Nevada <br />will in the next decade reach its 300,000 acre-feet allocation. <br />Indeed, Nevada has initiated recent efforts to market Colorado <br />River waters, projecting that by the year 2000 it will require <br />substantial new water supplies, primarily to serve the growing Las <br />Vegas area. In contrast, as noted earlier, the Upper Basin <br />depletions are roughly thirty percent of the 1922 projections. And <br />it is impossible to see on the horizon large new depletions in the <br />Upper Basin to exploit the Colorado River wealth promised those <br />largely rural regions. <br /> <br />It <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />IV. Upper Basin Federal policies Have Maximized Colorado River <br />Preservation, Not Development. <br /> <br />While federal policies established early in the twentieth <br />century maximized development of irrigation and municipal growth in <br />the Lower Basin, the later federal policies set forth in the <br />Colorado River storage Act of 1956 and the Colorado River Basin <br />Project Act of 1968 set forth a more modest plan for development in <br />the Upper Basin. The Colorado River storage Act, approved April <br />11, 1956, authorized the construction of four storage units: <br />Curecanti (later renamed the Wayne N.' Aspinall storage Unit), <br />Flaming Gorge, Navajo and Glen Canyon. In addition to assisting <br /> <br />8 <br />
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